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The truly blessed man
The truly blessed man: or, The way to be happy here, and for ever: being the substance of divers sermons preached on, Psalm XXXII. / By Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. N.E. ; [Five lines from Isaiah]
printed by B. Green for Michael Perry, 1700
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. The Exhortation it self, which is in sum, to rejoice, but it is emphatically set forth by a triplication of the advice in a variation of words; pointing us to,
2. The Exhortation it self, which is in summe, to rejoyce, but it is emphatically set forth by a triplication of the advice in a variation of words; pointing us to,
1. The great weight there is in this duty; repetition of things is a note of earnestness; God expects that all such rejoice, and will be displeased if they do not.
1. The great weight there is in this duty; repetition of things is a note of earnestness; God expects that all such rejoyce, and will be displeased if they do not.
2. The constancy of this duty, when he bids them to rejoice again and again, and a third time, it saith that they should always rejoice; and the variation of words points us to the manner and measure of our joy. Be glad; it signifies, to be cheerful or merry, pointing to the inward affection, and outward expression of it, but mainly the former: Rejoice, the word signifies the expression of inward gladness by outward gestures, and is rendered by the Septuagint, by a word that signifies to leap or dance for joy. Shout for joy: the word is used for the highest expression of joy that can be, it signifies to cry vehemently, and is used equivocally for joy and sorrow, but mostly the former. Sometimes translated, Sing for joy, Psal. 67 4. Sometimes, ⟨p. 585⟩